Science Fiction and Horror films: monsters and aliens, space and time travel, experiments gone wrong, unimagined disasters.
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." - Charlie Chaplin
A collection of feature or short silent films uploaded by archive users.
Topic: silent films
Expressionistic crime dramas of the 40s and 50s: tough cops and private eyes, femme fatales, mean city streets and deserted backroads, bags of loot and dirty double-crossers.
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The Video Cellar is an eclectic collection of feature films, shorts, animations and TV shows. The collection contains all kinds of narrative, educational, documentary, advertising, instructional and government films and videos from all over the world. Many of the videos have been preserved digitally and are available for free here at the Internet Archive. The Video Cellar's mission is to collect and preserve forgotten and lost films, to make them freely available to the public and to promote...
Topics: educational, documentary
COMEDY, DRAMA, ADVENTURE, MYSTERY, ROMANCE, SCI-FI, HORROR, WESTERNS, DOCUMENTARIES, EXPLOITATION. NOSTALGIC DOUBLE-FEATURE THEATER PROGRAMS You will find them all in this free movie loft!
Topics: feature films, picfixer
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This is a typical sex exploitation film from the early 1930s - complete with wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. A chorus girl's exposure to the "casting couch" also exposes her to syphilis. Exploitation filmmakers hoped to capitalize on the taboo subjects of venereal disease, sex before marriage, lesbianism, etc. while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 which forbade a film from containing such content. Films like this would tour the United States for...
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Topics: exploitation, melodrama
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Mar 15, 2004
03/04
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Karl Hardman, Russell Streiner
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In this classic yet still creepy horror film, strangers hold up in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse and battle constant attacks from dead locals who have been brought back to life by mysterious radiation. Note: This item contains a user-contributed srt subtitle file. To use this file you must download an srt compatible player and point it at the correct video and srt files (google for srt subtitles). We include this file for advanced users who may wish to use it, however the Archive does not...
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Topic: horror
BREAKING NEWS We have launched a kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the preproduction of a new documentary. We offer eight levels of generous rewards for donations of every budget. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2028711795/feature-documentary-about-overlooked-silent-movie If you support the cause of bringing belated recognition to many overlooked silent movie stars, please make a tax deductible donation and spread the word about this campaign. Silent Hall of Fame is the only place...
Topics: silent film, silent movie stars, free classic film, old movies, silent film streaming, silent era,...
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Nov 26, 2007
11/07
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http://imdb.com/title/tt0046969/ A man wrongly imprisoned for murder (John Ireland) breaks out of jail. He wants to clear his name, but with the police pursuing him, he's forced to take a beautiful young woman, driving a fast sports car, hostage and slip into a cross-border sports car race to try to make it to Mexico before the police get him
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Topics: drag Racing, action
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Four Chaplin shorts from 1917: The Adventurer, The Cure, Easy Street and The Immigrant, presented with music and sound effects. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
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Topic: comedy
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The complicated story involves the military conquest of a peaceful island-nation by an evil despot and his sorcerer ally. His victory leaves the island's three heroic protectors dead, but, their young children are hidden away to grow to adulthood with different identities, unaware of their heritage, in hope that, in time, they might challenge and defeat the evil ruler. The charming Polly Kuan stars as one of these children who has been adopted by the conquerer himself, initially as an insult to...
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Topics: Action, Drama, Fighting, Martial Arts
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Hilarious romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and becoming a house wife after her divorce from newspaper publisher Grant. Just when she is about to leave town with her husband-to-be the still lovesick Grant drafts her to cover one final breaking news sensation. Along with plenty of laughs and fast paced dialog this film provides a witty and cynical look at news business. There is a...
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Topics: romance, comedy
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[1964] Three sex researchers discuss their wildest cases, as told to them by their patients. A "Nudie Cutie" exploitation movie . The story is just a reason to look at nude women.
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Topics: full movie, nudie cutie, sexploition, stripping, peeping tom, nudity
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Mar 31, 2006
03/06
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Norman D. Wells
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A team of astronauts crashes on the surface of Venus. Accompanied by their robot, they explore the surface and end up destroying the Venusian God. This film is also known as "The Gill Women" and "The Gill Women of Venus". This film began life as a Soviet-produced work. An American producer then added some new footage and changed the credits to hide the film's Soviet origin. The original film, "Planeta Bur", is also known as "Cosmonauts on Venus",...
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Topics: 1960s, Soviet, space, pdmovies
A pioneer of the film genre known as "other cinema," Lutz Mommartz was born in in Erkelenz in 1934 and spent most of his life in Dusseldorf. He began making movies in 1967 and eventually became Professor of Film at the Kunstakademie Munster. He still lives and works in Germany, dividing his time between Dusseldorf and Berlin. This collection of 51 films features selections from the Lutz Mommartz Film Archive.
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Mar 22, 2008
03/08
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Hal Stanley
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Stars Van Johnson, Claude Rains, Jim Backus Tagline: "Now! a giant color spectacle! from the pages of the immortal classics comes this famous story" Information regarding this film on its IMDb page . More information on Wikipedia .
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Topics: fantasy, musical, fairy tale
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Feb 27, 2009
02/09
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William Castle
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Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house.
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Topics: Drama, Horror, Thriller
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Apr 14, 2006
04/06
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Raymond Eger
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Utopia (also known as Atoll K and Robinson Crusoe Land) is last film Laurel and Hardy made together. It was filmed and produced in Europe.
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Topics: Laurel & Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
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Mar 10, 2004
03/04
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George A. Hirliman
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Considered THE archetypal sensationalized anti-drug movie, but it's really an exploitation film made to capitalize on the hot taboo subject of marijuana use. Like many exploitation films of the time, "Reefer Madness" tried to make a quick buck off of a forbidden subject while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930. The Code forbade the portrayal of immoral acts like drug use. ( The illegal drug traffic must not be portrayed in such a way as to stimulate curiosity...
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Topics: exploitation, cult, pdmovies
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Sep 7, 2006
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Alexander Korda
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Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas. Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against 'beasts' including Mowgli; not so Buldeo's pretty daughter, whom Mowgli takes on a jungle tour where they find a treasure, setting the evil of human greed in motion. Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins
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Topics: Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Sabu Dastagir, pdmovies
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May 10, 2007
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Jack Gold
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Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer star in this award winning movie about the successful mass escape of 300 prisoners from the Sobibor Nazi death camp. Fine acting and production values make this film a worthwhile viewing experience.
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Topics: Alan Arkin, Rutger Hauer, Sobibor, Nazi, pdmovies
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Mar 2, 2009
03/09
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Nina Paley
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Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as "the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told."
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Nov 29, 2006
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From IMDb: When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall's life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr. Frankenstein. Soon it comes after Marshall and the doctor's daughter.
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Topic: Horror
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Apr 13, 2004
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D.W. Griffith
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A biography of the beloved United States president by D. W. Griffith. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
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Topic: pdmovies
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Nov 21, 2006
11/06
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Francesco Merli, Ralph Zucker
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A group of models and cameramen go to a castle to shoot covers for horror novels where they're captured and tortured by the castle's owner, the Crimson Executioner. Find out more about this film on it's IMDB page .
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Topic: horror
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Aka 'Sherlock Holmes in Dressed To Kill' - features Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
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Topics: Mystery, Thriller, pdmovies
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Charlie Chaplins 53rd Film Released July 10 1916 The Vagabond was a silent film by Charlie Chaplin and his third film with Mutual Films. Released in 1916, it co-starred Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Leo White and Lloyd Bacon. This film echoed Chaplin's work on The Tramp, with more drama mixed in with comedy. The story begins with Charlie, playing music to raise money, and instead finds the abused girl (played by Edna) living in a gypsy camp. As in The Tramp, he works on finding a way to help...
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Topics: Charlie Chaplin, Silents
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**This film contains extremely graphic scenes of human suffering, please exercise caution when viewing.** Compilation footage of Nazi concentration camps in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The footage was gathered by the US Department of Defense as part of the effort to conduct war crimes trials. This copy was dubbed from a video copy at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. National Archives Identifiers: ARC: 43452 NAIL: 238.2
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Topics: nazi, war, world war II, concentration camp
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4 Episodes Of The 3 Stooges. Downloads include: Disorder In The Court Brideless Groom Sing A Song Of Six Pants Malice In The Palace
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Topics: three stooges, comedy, public domain
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"Three gunmen, who have been hired to assassinate the President, hold a family hostage while waiting for their target. Interesting B film which focuses on psychopathic killer well-portrayed against type by Frank Sinatra." - noir expert Spencer Selby | Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates. 77 min.
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Topics: crime, drama, Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates, Kim Charney
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Cindy Dunne, Joel Thurm
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The film centers on the life of Tod Lubitch (John Travolta), who was born with an improperly functioning immune system. This means that contact with unfiltered air may kill him, so he must live out his life in incubator conditions. He lives with his parents, since they decided to move him from the hospital where he was being kept as a boy. He is constricted to staying in his room all his life, where he eats, learns, reads and exercises, while being protected from the outside world by various...
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Topics: Drama, John Travolta
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Nov 2, 2010
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The Film follows a reporter (Davee Decker) as she infiltrates a nudist colony in the hopes of exposing its immoral ways. However, once there, she finds herself enjoying it a little bit more than she anticipated. This Film was extremely controversial in 1961 today, films like this are considered to be curiosity pieces.
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Topic: Romance
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Feb 6, 2005
02/05
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Daniel Dare
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Bob Hope comedy with Dorothy Lamour. | You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
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Topics: Comedy, pdmovies
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Jan 15, 2007
01/07
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Andrew McLaglen, director
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This great comedy western stars John Wayne,Maureen O'Hara,Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers,Chill Wills, and Strother Marten. There is a hilarious mudhole fight scene at the end.
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Topics: John Wayne, comedy, western, pdmovies
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Dec 3, 2006
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Sam Spiegel
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Set Connecticut after World War II, The Stranger is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the Allied War Crimes Commission and Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi who has assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin. To complete his new intelligentsia disguise, Kindler marries Mary Longstreet, daughter of a Supreme Court justice.
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Topics: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller, pdmovies
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Produced by the Highway Safety Foundation in 1964, this shocking film deals with a subject quite taboo for its time. The short serves as a dramatized warning, ending with graphic case studies. Unlike the driver's education films produced by the same company, this film was apparently issued for only a short time before being withdrawn. **CONTENT ADVISORY: Crime scene footage at end will upset some people**
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Topics: educational, social issues, criminal
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Aug 15, 2004
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You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
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Topic: animation
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Mar 4, 2007
03/07
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William Castle
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Vincent Price gives a stellar performance as the suavely malevolent host of a "haunted house party" who offers his guests $10,000 if they can survive a night in the murderous mansion. Watch for the great Elisha Cook Jr,(he played Wilmer in the "Maltese Falcon") as the groveling homeowner. The eerie looking home used for the exterior shots is the Ennis Brown house in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1924. It was later used in the films "Blade...
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Topics: Vincent Price, haunted house, horror, William Castle
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Ditzy socialite with a heart of gold, Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) finds "forgotten man" Godfrey Smith (William Powell) in a scavenger hunt. Eventually Godfrey is taken in as the family butler for the Bullocks and screwball antics and romance ensue.
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Topics: screwball, comedy, romance
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You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
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Topic: adventure
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Jan 25, 2007
01/07
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Michael Wayne
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John Wayne Comedy Western filmed in widescreeen.
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Topics: John Wayne, comedy, western
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Oct 26, 2005
10/05
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Carl Laemmle
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At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs, where he lives.
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Topics: silent, drama, horror, pdmovies
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Mar 5, 2006
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Carl Laemmle, Stuart Paton
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The Universal Film Manufacturing Company was not known in the silent era as premier producer of motion pictures. Yet, in 1916 they produced a film that could not be made effectively without expensive special effects and special photography. The novel had previously been made as short films in 1907 by Georges Méliès and in 1913 by French company ÃÂclair.) Marshalling the expertise underwater experts Ernest and George Williamson, Universal financed the extensive production which would...
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Topics: Silent, Drama
Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. (Wikipedia) A prolific innovator in the use of special effects, accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick, he was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography,...
Topics: cinema, early movies, french, filmmaker, silent films
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William Smith tracks down his father, a vampire who raped his mother. The IMDB entry is here . The mpeg2 file has nav-packets, so you can load it into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) to create a DVD to watch on your television.
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Topics: vampire, William Smith, Michael Pataki, Lyn Peters
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Jan 14, 2011
01/11
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Paul Czinner, Joseph M. Schenck
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In this first film version of William Shakespeare's classic pastoral comedy, Sir Laurence Olivier stars as Orlando while Elisabeth Bergner is Rosalind, his secret admirer who disguises herself as a boy in order to stay near to him. Nearly all of the actors involved had performed the work on stage previously, adding to the stellar overall performance. A particular highlight is Olivier's magnificent delivery of the famous "All the world's a stage..." monologue.
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Topics: Drama, Comedy, Romance, Elisabeth Bergner, Laurence Olivier
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Attack by monsters from another planet! IMDB page
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Topic: Science Fiction
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Charlie Chaplin's 56th Film Released Oct 02 1916. The Pawnshop was Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Mutual Film Company. Chaplin played the role of assistant to the pawnshop owner. Henry Bergman played the owner and Edna Purviance the owner's daughter. Albert Austin played an alarm clock owner who watches Charlie in dismay as he checks out the clock. This was one of Chaplin's more popular Mutual Films, mainly for the slapstick comedy he was famous for at the time....
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Topics: Charlie Chaplin, Silents
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Jul 18, 2005
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Rudolf Meinert and Erich Pommer
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the first modern Horror Film and it influence a number of contemporary productions. A real classic! PLOT: A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiancée Jane. Alan takes him to a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, that can predict the future. When Alan asks how long he has to live, Cesare says he has until dawn. The prophecy comes to pass, as Alan is murdered, and Cesare is a prime suspect....
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Topics: Silent, Fantasy, Horror, German Expressionism
